Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's tacky it 's erm well as soon as they come in the door they wan na walk out and that that 's an overall opinion that 's not just me or a couple of mates that 's everybody . |
| 2 | Even where practices may not differ over time , or place , there may be an inconsistency about them or a lack of knowledge about them , or a long-standing dispute about them , which could make it equally difficult to argue that following or not following a practice was or was not constitutional or legitimate . |
| 3 | In presenting the main commentary , remember that readers will either have the original table before them or a number of tabular extracts presented by you to clarify points of interest . |
| 4 | So I would , I and a couple of the fellas went to pull them to the aeroplane graveyard . |
| 5 | A small painting of his provided a moment of calm reflection among those of his more raucous colleagues in Alana Heiss ' ‘ Slow Painting ’ show last summer at P.S.I . |
| 6 | She added : ‘ The Garda authorities inform me that a quantity of spent ammunition rounds was recovered in the course of the search , and that these are currently undergoing forensic examination . |
| 7 | MH : I remember somebody told me that a member of the public asked that question and was told it could be either five minutes or 40 years ! |
| 8 | " I 'm not doubting you , but the thought struck me that a gathering of this type might attract some unwarranted attention , and perhaps encourage unwanted visitors . " |
| 9 | in in my course of work , I have three grown up sons and I think an awful lot of what we 're talking about is in your own attitude to men , and generally the most difficult men to deal with , I find , are men who for whatever reason , are actually inadequate , a little bit sensitive to women being competent I I have no difficulty at all in dealing with that , but I I 'm aware that it seems significant to me that a lot of the younger women here are much more shall we say , sensitive to erm , what I perceive as being basically male chauvinism . |
| 10 | He tells me that a girlfriend of his was fishing , with her mother , from a rowing boat in the fjord near Tromsø one day . |
| 11 | Seddon also told me that a team of telephone engineers had already started work to improve the service to Foulness . |
| 12 | Again , it is unbelievable to an ordinary Rottweiler fanatic like me that a dog of this quality could be bought . |
| 13 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 14 | Sapt had told them that a friend of the King 's was a prisoner in the Castle of Zenda and that the King needed their help . |
| 15 | ‘ Wish that I did have the courage to kiss you , querida , ’ he rasped , ‘ but I have standards and a level of decency to live up to and they are more important to me than a moment of weakness to prove that I am immune to you . ’ |
| 16 | Next year , it 'll be me and a couple of others and that 'll be it . |
| 17 | Me and a couple of hundred others . |
| 18 | It was a winter not of discontent but of change and new ideas — a change of direction for me and a widening of horizons . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's put me and a lot of other people through hell and anguish in the last few weeks . |
| 20 | I think most of England are on this adventure with me and a lot of Europeans , ’ said Mansell . |
| 21 | was utterly peaceful , sitting there in the hot sun with the scent of thyme around me and a view of distant Hymettos over the tiled roofs of Athens . |
| 22 | Once the exams were over I had the whole summer free in front of me and a host of new friends to pass it with the idea made me extremely happy . |
| 23 | As far as Wales are concerned , the feeling afterwards was a sense of relief for being able to throw back at the French everything their opponents threw at them and a mood of confidence that their hard work is slowly paying dividends . |
| 24 | First , just two appear at the front end as distinct blocks of tissue and then , about each hour , another pair are added behind them and a wave of formation proceeds backwards so that at the end of a few days there are 46 somites . |
| 25 | The reputation of the new drugs had preceded them and a ripple of optimism ran through the sanatorium , though Doctor Staples had been careful to stress that they were still in the experimental stage . |
| 26 | As hospital staff try to get rid of the last traces of CS gas from the department many are still recovering from the ordeal , which left them and a number of their patients suffering the effects of the gas . |
| 27 | There are obvious problems with this approach : there is no common definition as to the components of these qualities , there is no reliable method of identifying them and a list of qualities may well include contradictory elements . |
| 28 | It is up to them and a lot of the time they will do anything to get you inside . |
| 29 | I wheeled round to face them and a lump of earth hit me full in the mouth and another in my chest , half-winding me . |
| 30 | She fetched some home-made cakes for them and a glass of lemonade each , and while they ate and drank opened her parcels . |